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| Uperodon systoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Microhylidae |
| Subfamily: | Microhylinae |
| Genus: | Uperodon Duméril & Bibron, 1841 |
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12 species (see text) | |
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Uperodon is a genus of microhylid frogs. They occur in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh) and Myanmar. Uperodon reached its current composition in 2016 when the genus Ramanella was brought into its synonymy. The common names of these frogs are globular frogs and balloon frogs in reference to their stout appearance, or dot frogs, the last specifically referring to the former Ramanella.
Uperodon includes burrowing frogs that eat ants and termites.
Species
There are 12 recognized species:
- Uperodon anamalaiensis (Rao, 1937)
- Uperodon globulosus (Günther, 1864)
- Uperodon montanus (Jerdon, 1853)
- Uperodon mormoratus (Rao, 1937)
- Uperodon nagaoi (Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2001)
- Uperodon obscurus (Günther, 1864)
- Uperodon palmatus (Parker, 1934)
- Uperodon rohani Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018
- Uperodon systoma (Schneider, 1799)
- Uperodon taprobanicus (Parker, 1934)
- Uperodon triangularis (Günther, 1876)
- Uperodon variegatus (Stoliczka, 1872)
The AmphibiaWeb also lists Uperodon minor Rao, 1937, which is considered synonym of Uperodon anamalaiensis by the Amphibian Species of the World.
References
- ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Uperodon Duméril and Bibron, 1841". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- ^ "Microhylidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- Peloso, Pedro L.V.; Frost, Darrel R.; Richards, Stephen J.; Rodrigues, Miguel T.; Donnellan, Stephen; Matsui, Masafumi; Raxworthy, Cristopher J.; Biju, S.D.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R. & Wheeler, Ward C. (2016). "The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)". Cladistics. 32 (2): 113–140. doi:10.1111/cla.12118. S2CID 84925667.
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. (1890). Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Reptilia and Batrachia. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 495–497.
- Das, I. (1996). "Resource use and foraging tactics in a south Indian amphibian community" (PDF). Journal of South Asian Natural History. 2 (1): 1–30.
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